In two months time I will again be running in the City2Surf to help raise funds to support children suffering from rare diseases. Donate HereThis will be my fourth year in support of this cause. These unfortunate children are orphans of the health care system. Because they suffer from rare conditions they are often misdiagnosed and sent from doctor to doctor and specialist to specialist before an accurate diagnosis is hopefully arrived at....

You’ll only achieve your Personal Best (PB) with a lot of effort. So it you aren’t up for effort, then this isn’t the program for you. Having said that, I’ve designed this slightly harder program in a similar format to the ‘Beginner to Intermediate’ program so that both will work in sync. This means that you can interchange any day’s activity between the two programs, depending on how you are feeling on the day. I did this because I designed...

Don’t run to the wrong beat Did you know that listening to the wrong music when you run can actually slow you down or burn you out to early. Some people may just want entertainment while they are running, and that is fine. But if you are training for an event and you want to train in order to run faster, you should choose your music strategically depending on the activity. For example; if you want to increase your average running cadence (that...

I‘m often asked which running app I’d recommend for training. I’ve been using the free Nike+ app for many years and found it to be very good and I’ve played around with another free app, RunKeeper which is also very good, however I’ve recently upgraded to iSmoothRun which costs about $5 but it has a lot of great features that the others don’t have that I find really help with training. I recommend iSmoothRun...

On Monday I got an email that read, ‘You have been selected a winner in the SEIKO City2Surf competition!’ What a great way to start the week! I’m not the kind of person that usually wins anything; let alone a great prize like this. This morning a courier knocked at my door with my new ‘Seiko Sportura Alarm Chronograph’, which I immediately took out of the box and put on. This new watch is actually my third Seiko. My parents bought me a Seiko as...